The Trouble With a Great Technology

And that, I think, is what’s at the heart of all the recently passed and proposed e-mail regulations. E-mail, and particularly the proliferation of spam, has reached such a critical mass that we, as a society, need to now actually do something about it.

To make matters worse, this new daily duty comes right at the time in our history when most everyone is swamped. Corporations have cut staff, remaining employees are overburdened, companies are trying to remain efficient, and along comes this new technology that is wonderful and offers astounding capabilities — and is just way too demanding of what little free time we have left.